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Friday 8 AM at Govt Center: Defend Amer Jubran!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Julia Steinberger)
Thu Nov 14 08:06:45 2002
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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:06:33 -0500
From: Julia Steinberger <julias@MIT.EDU>
Please help beat back fascism!!!!
**EMERGENCY ACTION **
Picket the INS!
Demand a bond hearing for Amer Jubran!
Friday, November 15, 8:00 a.m.
JFK Federal Building,Boston
(near the Govt.Center T stop, Green Line)
Who is Amer Jubran? Amer Jubran is a well-known advocate and activist
for human rights, particularly the rights of Palestinians. On Nov.4,
he was arrested at his home in Rhode Island, only two days after
leading a legal protest march in Boston. INS and FBI agents entered
his home without producing a warrant and threatened him with
indefinite INS detention if he refused to cooperate with an FBI
investigation into his legal activities as an advocate for Palestinian
rights. The INS arrested him when he insisted on his right not to be
questioned without counsel present. He is still being held without
bail at the Adult Correctional Institution in Cranston, Rhode Island.
Jubran's lawyer filed a motion to have bond set so that Jubran can be
released while his case is pending. The court has accepted the
motion, but no date for a hearing has been scheduled. Jubran's
continuing detention is a gross violation of his fundamental rights to
due process.
On Nov.11, a delegation from the Amer Jubran Defense
Committee,accompanied by Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner, attempted
to meet with INS Regional Director Steven J. Farquharson to protest
this illegal detention and to demand that Jubran be released at once
or that a bond hearing be set without further delay. Mr.Farquharson
refused to meet with the delegation.
Please join us in an early morning picket of the INS regional headquarters on
Friday, Nov.15 to demand:
Justice for Amer Jubran!
This politically motivated attack on free speech
and legal activism threatens us all!
Amer Jubran Defense Committee
P.O.Box 755
Jamaica Plain,MA 02130
NECDP@attbi.com
www.onepalestine.org
